<\/a>Very often, this internal motivation is produced because of the close relationships the child has with his or her caregivers, who used to be the parents not too long ago. If a child does not have these deep, nurturing relationships, the child becomes easily frustrated and seeks more and more things to fill that vacuum. So, that is how we train children. We fill their storehouses, which, by the way, need to be filled both with large files all at once as well as with smaller files delivered continuously again and again at small regular intervals. The child very often does not even need us to teach him what to do with all the wonderful material we have poured into his storehouses, he will seek out ways and means to create whole new experiences with what we have put in. Of course, all children need some guidance, and all children need to be told the reasons why. Children are much more perceptive and much more discerning than we tend to give them credit for. So, establish great learning conditions, present information, suggest creative ways to make that information meaningful, and let the child experience life! That’s how you train kids, isn’t it?<\/span><\/p>\nDo we train adults differently? We say adults must be given a reason for wanting to learn. Children don’t need a reason? We say learning for adults must be made meaningful to them. Children don’t need to have meaning, don’t need to make sense of what we are trying to teach them? I trow not!<\/span><\/p>\nAt the end of the day, it is not “pedagogy is for children” or “andragogy is for adults”. The truth lies, as it so often does, in between. There are times when we actually need to take adults by the hand and teach them as we would children, like it or not. And there are times when children will delight us by taking what we thought to have taught them, and teaching us a thing or two from their own insights.<\/span><\/p>\nSo, pedagogy or andragogy? Stop it. Apply some “wise-agogy” and stop the “waffle-agogy”. It’s application of the right mix at the right time for the needs of the \u00a0moment. Enjoy your gogy! And stop waffling!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are you familiar with the terms “pedagogy” and “andragogy“? “Pedagogy” is supposed to be education which is centered on the needs of the child, and “andragogy” is supposed to centered on the needs of, you guessed it, adults. You think so? I don’t! We have taken terms to the extreme. That is part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,7,11,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_1063.jpg?fit=4608%2C3456&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-HL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9126,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/9126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}